What you need to know

  • Apple Watch ECG app coming to Canada.
  • Tiiming still TBD but "as quickly as possible"; likely next update.
  • ECG app allows single-pad-equivalent tests on-demand.

There's been a lot of speculation and misinformation and the ECG app for Apple Watch and when it would be arriving in Canada. That's thanks to some incredibly unhelpful tweets and posts from Health Canada that lacked anything remotely resembling clarity and context.

Now, though, we're finally starting to get some official word.

From the CBC:

[Apple] says in a statement to The Canadian Press that it will bring the heart health features of Apple Watch Series 4 to Canada "as quickly as possible" but a spokeswoman declined to provide an estimated time of arrival.

"As quickly as possible" probably means the next public watchOS release.

A person with knowledge of Apple's procedures said on background that the heart features will be enabled in Canada when the company updates the watch's operating system software but the timing of the update wasn't known.

I've used the ECG app on a US Apple Watch and it's worked well. Can't wait to have it in Canada.

Beta testers will likely wait until July to get their hands on iOS 16
Waiting game

Beta testers will likely wait until July to get their hands on iOS 16

If all goes according to previous years we can expect Apple to release the first developer beta of iOS 16 on June 6, the same day that it will be announced. That's the date of the WWDC22 opening keynote but those who are part of the public beta program look set to be waiting a little while longer.